Here is how I fixed it.  Thanks.

-Ryan

                get-news-date: func [
                        date-str [string!] "One of the above date strings"
                ][
                        date-str: any [find/tail date-str ", " date-str]
                        to-date date-str
                ]

                get-news-date2: func [
                        date-str [string!] "One of the above date strings"
                ][
                        date-str: any [find/tail date-str " " date-str]
                        to-date date-str
                ]

                dateline: fields   ;-fields is defined elsewhere

                if error? try [message-date: get-news-date dateline] [message-date: 
get-news-date2 dateline]

>   Opps, sorry.  I think the problem is the "Date: " portion of the
> third date string type.  This oughta do:
> 
>  get-news-date:  func [  
>      date-str  [string!]  "One of the above date strings"  
>  ][
>      date-str: any [
>          find/tail  date-str ", "
>          find/tail date-str "Date: " 
>          date-str
>      ] 
>      to-date date-str  
>  ]

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